OLD FORT NEWS
VOLUME III OLD FORT, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1930 NUMBER 46
THE OLD FORT NEWS
The Old Fort News is pub
lished each week in connection
with the Marion Progress.
MISS GERTRUDE DULA,
Editor and Business Manager.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST
C. P. Kerlee of Black Mountain
was in Old Fort Saturday.
Mrs. Maggie Rabbitts and Mrs. R.
Keith of Cincinnati, Ohio, are visit
ing relatives and friends in Old Fort.
Glen Greene of Roan River, N. C.,
spent the week-end in Old Fort.
Misses Frances and Stella Sherrill
were in Marion Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lavender of
Columbus, N. C., spent the week-end
with relatives in and around Old
Fort.
Arlo Bates of Dixon, Tenn., is
spending several weeks with his
mother, Mrs. T. L. Fuller.
Miss Polly Greene is visiting rela
tives in Asheville this week.
J. Y. Gilliam of Asheville was in
Old Fort Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Thompson,
who have been visiting the Gosorns
several weeks, left last week for
their home in Akron, Ohio. Miss
Audry Go°orn accompanied them to
Akron for a visit to relatives.
Miss Laura Lipe is visiting rela
tives in Asheville.
Rev. D. A. Lewis was called to Co
lumbia, S. C., last week on account
of the illness of his father.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Merrell
and son Howard, of Fletcher, were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Kanipe Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Wilson of Mar
ion were in Old Fort Sunday.
Dan Haney of Nealsville was in
Old Fort Sunday.
Miss Elva Noblitt left last Friday
for Washington, D. C., to spend sev
months with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Erwin spent
Tuesday in Asheville.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fortune of
Asheville were in Old Fort Monday.
Miss Elizabeth Lipe spent Satur
day in Asheville.
Mr.~and Mrs. Bartlett of Asheville
were the guests of Mrs. T. L. Lipe
on Sunday.
Misses Stella Sherrill and Kath
erine Finch spent Wednesday in
Asheville.
Mrs. L. J. Stirewalt spent Tues
day in Asheville.
Miss Gertrude Durham of Foun
tain City, Tenn., is visiting relatives
and friends in Old Fort.
H. C. Fisher made a business trip to
Charlotte Wednesday.
Royce McDaniel, who has been
working in Detroit, Mich., several
months, has returned to his home in
Old Fort.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Cannon and
Garnet White left Thursday for
Kansas City, Mo., after spending
several weeks with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John White.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Black spent
Sunday in Shelby.
Mrs. J. B. Johnson and daughters
Mary Margaret and Jean, returned
home on Saturday after several
weeks' visit with Mrs. Alexander
Allanack in Winston-Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Bruce of
Greenville, S. C., are guests of Mr.
and Mrs. P. H. Mashburn.
J. L. Nichols of Marion was a vis
itor in Old Fort on Sunday.
Hart Taylor spent the past week
end with his family in Oid Fort.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins of
Marion .were in Old Fort on Sunday,
calling on their son Robert Hawkins,
who is manager of the Standard Fil
ling Station west of Old Fort, and
Mr. and Mrs. Westermann.
Miss Elaine Mashburn, who has
been ill with tonsilitis at the French
Broad Hospital, is much improved.
Col. D. W. Adams is in New York
this week on business.
Mrs. Hart Taylor spent Wednes
day night in Asheville as the guest
of Mrs. Tom Pritchard, who enter
tained with a party at the "Watch
Y'r Step" cabaret.
Mrs. Effie Mashburn spent Sun
day in Asheville with her daughter,
Miss Elaine Mashburn.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Fisher and
children attended a family reunion
on Sunday which was held at Cand
ler at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T.
S. Clark.
Prof. S. B. Smithey spent the
week-end with his family in Old Fort
Misses Louise Clark, Beatrice Lee
and Genevieve Reed and Messrs.
John Fisher and Thomas Clark will
be week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry C. Fisher at their cabin on
Lake James this week.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Har
mon, a son, August 11th.
Miss Mildred Jackson and nephew
Albert Cheek of Tallahassee, Fla.,
are guests at the Mauney House.
Mrs. Clyde Harrold of Buffalo, N.
Y., was the week-end guest of Mrs.
Charles Stepp.
Mrs. 0. C. Beasley and daughters
of Cleveland, Ohio, are guests of
Miss Marv Burgin this week.
| __ Mrs. Hart Taylor and Mrs. H. I.
! Green were visitors in Marion on
j Monday.
Mrs. Austin of Asheville was the
guest of Mrs. W. P. Artz, Sunday.
Mrs. W. R. Walker had as her
guest the past week-end Dr. Hunter
Sweeney of Durham, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Nichols of Old
Fort, Mr. and Mrs. Hargrove of
Waynesville, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
Wells and Professor Hutchens of
Canton, enjoyed a fishing trip to
Deep Creek in the Smoky Mountain
Park the past week.
The Bradley store building on S.
Main street is being remodeled. A
new front for the store is being
built this week. Other new features
will be the raising of the ground
floor so that it will be on a level with
the street.
Miss Edith Rowe Grady left on
Monday for her home in Wilson, N,
C., where she will spend the next
few weeks visjting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Grady, before
resuming her work. Miss Grady has
been giving musical instruction to an
•enthusiastic class during June and
July.
Large crowds have been attending
the revival services conducted by
Mrs. C. L Steidley at the Methodist
church this week. Music under the
direction of Mr. Allison, which in
cluded a solo by Mr. Rufus Cannon
of Kansas City, and quartettes by
Rev. J. E. Ingle, Rev. M. W. Dargan,
Prof. G. B. Strickland, and Clifford
Nesbitt, also special music by the
I senior end junior choirs, added
I much to the spiritual uplift of these
| meetings.
MRS. J. C. UMBERGER
! ENTERTAINS EPW'TH LEAGUE
Mrs. Umberger entertained the
Senior and Hi-Leagues last Friday
night at her home on Catawba ave
nue. The rooms were inviting with
decorations of garden flowers of ev
ery color. A large number of girls
and boys took part in the games and
contests. Those receiving prizes were
Pauline Noblitt and Gladys Stump.
At the conclusion of the games de
licious refreshments were served
by the hostess, assisted by members
of the League.
FUNERAL OF GLADYS MOORE
The funeral services for Gladys
Moore, age 12 years, who died Mon
day evening, August 11th, at 9 o'
clock, weie held at Cherry Springs
church on Tuesday afternoon at 3
i o'clock.
Surviving are the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lonnie Moore.
The services were conducted by
| Rev. C. C. Grogan and interment
was made in the Cherry Springs
cemetery.
UNUSUAL SCENES MAKE
NEW FILM STARTLING SHOW
i Half-savage Fijians who inhabit
i the isle of Benga, once a year wor
| ship their maker and te^t their faith
by actually walking through a roar
ing fire across a bed of red-hot
i stones!
! An exact reproduction of these
i frenzied religious scenes provides
I the motivating highlight of "Girl of
! the Port" at Everybody's Theatre
Friday and Saturday.
I The eye will be regaled with
: dancing half-naked savages, carry
j ing war clubs, walking slowly
| through the red flames which leap
| against a tropical growth.
A COUPLE OF REASONS
She: "I bobbed my hair to show
my independence."
He: "What did you bob your
skirt for?"
A REQUEST
Old Fort people are reques
ted to send news items for the
Old Fort News page, in the
Marion Progress, to Miss Ger
trude Dula, editor of this page,
and not direct to the Progress
office. This is to avoid the same
■news item being printed twice
on the page. Mailing boxes for
Old Fort News items will be
found at the Old Fort Drug
Store and the Bradley Drug
Store. Postoffice Box 191, Old
Fort, N. C.
FINDS WAY TO BEAT
DAD'S QUEER WILL
Divorces Husband, Gets Mon
ey, Re weds Him.
San Francisco.—So she took the
$160,000 and remarried her divorced
husband.
As a denoument to tiie spectacular
affairs of Dr. and Mrs. Roderic O'Con
nor of Oakland, the divorced couple
re-entered the marital state in Reno
The prominent Oakland physician
was divorced by his wife, the former
Gertrude Gould, last December, in
Reno. She charged him with fault
finding and nagging.
In January Mrs. O'Connor appeared
in Superior court and asked that the
"divorce clause" in her father's will
be fulfilled.
This will made by the late Charles
B. Gould, former president of the Cali
fornia fish and game commission, pro
vided that his daughter should receive
only the income from a $160,000 trust
fund.
If she were widowed or divorced,
however, she was to receive the $160,
000 principal immediately. She got
the money by order of Superior Judge
Lincoln S. Church.
Shortly thereafter persistent ru
mors were current among friends of
the couple that they were shortly to
remarry. Both denied this, admitting
that they were "close friends" but no
more.
The wedding ceremony recently was
performed by Rev. Brewster Adams,
Reno Baptist minister.
The couple have one daughter, who
inherited $20,000 from Gould's estate.
Birmingham Is Still
Bashful About Limbs
Birmingham, England.—To most of
the world a leg, whether it is sheathed
in silk or wears a garter around its
calf, Is merely something to get some
wheru on.
Not so In Birmingham! The good
folks here can't even look at their
own.
A few years ago the Watch commit
tee, which supervises the city's mor
als, reached the momentous decision
that even though a leg was a thing of
beauty, it had a devastating Influence.
Therefore, the bare leg was placed in
the same category as the witch.
Pavlowa was compelled to tyip over
the stage with her famous supports
covered by fleslilings. Ordinary
chorus girls were made to wear tights.
It appeared the city had been saved
from perdition. Troupers came back
into the cities and told the story.
Newspapers poked fun at the right
eous citizens.
Finally the committee decided to re
consider its decision. It held a sol
emn inspection of a bare leg. After
recovering from the shock that it con
tained nothing vicious the committee
generously decided if other person's
legs were attractive, Birmingham
citizens might have a lock. It even
I ignored colored spectacles.
Russ Reds Fail to Put
Efficiency in Railways
Moscow, U. S. S. R.—The work of
the Soviet railroads in the first half
of the present business year is de
I scribed as entirely unsatisfactory by
the official mouthpiece of the railway
workers, Gudok.
Only two lines, it appears from a
statistical table, carried out their pre
scribed amount of freight transporta
tion. Those were the Moscow-Kazan
railroad and the Southwestern rail
road. All other lines fell far behind
the plans.
The Moscow-Kursk road, always re
garded as a model organization,
shocked the.railroad world here by
taking last place in the table of work
accomplished.
Movements of trains according to
time tables fell to only G9 per cent,
Gudok declares. Since that is regard
ed as an index of efficient operation,
the situation is obviously bad. The
press calls for greater efforts and for
measures to fix responsibility for fail
ure.
EVERYBODY'S
THEATRE
OLD FORT, N. C.
"Girl of the Port"
With
SALLY O'NEIL
A Drama of Young Love.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
AUGUST 15tk-16th
"It's a Great Life";
The Duncan Sisters dande their way
through gay comedy
MONDAY and TUESDAY
AUGUST 19tb-20th
OIL FORTUNES FAIL
TO SPOIL TEXANS
Old Cattlemen Build Up
Ranches, Live Simply.
Odessa, Texas.—Production of oil
has brought millions of dollars to land
owners of Texas. In every oil field
there is a fund of human interest
stories on the effect which the unex
pected acquirement of riches -has had
upon various landholders.
Although there are in Texas a num
ber of multi-millionaires who were in
poor circumstances until the black gold
began flowing from wells upon their
| land, none of them has attempted a
spectacular role, such as was credited
to "Coal Oil Johnny" of Pennsylvania
pioneer days, or to Governor A. W.
Tabor of Colorado, silver king, or to
the mysterious "Scotty," of Death val
ley fame.
Ira W Yates, who owns the land
upon which the famous Yates field in
Pecos county is situated., during the
last four years has piled up a fortune
of more than $8,000,000 from oil roy
alties. Mr. Yates now makes his home
in San Antonio, more than 400 miles
from the scene of his 40 years of
ranch labors.
Yates Interested in Cattle.
His primary interest since his wealth
came to him has been to buy ranches
and stock them with high-grade white
face cattle. He now has several
ranches in southwest Texas to which
he devotes his time. He was on the
verge of going bankrupt in the cattle
business at the time the discovery of
oil was made upon his Pecos county
ranch.
Tom Hendrick, of Odessa, is another
outstanding producer who has not let
money turn his head. Mr. Hendrick,
like Mr. Yates, has been ranching in
West Texas for more than 40 years.
The deflation of the cattle business
following the close of the World war
brought disaster, and his ranch in
Winkler county became loaded with
debt. Then came the oil strike. In a
short time he had piled up a fortune
of more than $G,000,000. The Hen
drick oil field is second in importance
to the Yates field.
Travel and large cities have no lure
for Mr. and Mrs. Hendrick In his
ranching days Odessa was his trading
place, and it was to this town that he
moved when fortune smiled upon him.
He built a small home here. He has
one outstanding hobby. It is that of
creating a wild game preserve.
Creates Wild Game Preserve.
He recently purchased 5,000 acres of
land three miles from Odessa and
fenced it with closely webbed wire, so
that no kind of animal could get out
and no predatory animal could get In.
He has already stocked it with a small
herd of buffalo, and is now negotiating
for a herd of antelope. Deer and other
wild animals native to West Texas will
also be obtained and turned loose upon
the small ranch.
Many persons in Texas are land
poor; that is, they own land which is
non-productive and from which only a
bare revenue can be obtained by farm
ing. In practically every oil field in
Texas, and there are more than 40
recognized fields or pools, there were
many poor landowners, each of whom
has acquired fortunes ranging from
$50,000 to $500,000 from oil royalties.
Hornets Fly 6 Miles to
Sea; Put Out Gas Buoys
Boston.—Hornets are doing off shore
cruising this season, the gas buoys off
Cape Ann and Nauset, Cape Cod, hav- |
ing recently been extinguished by the
insects creeping under the hood and
lenses.
The captain of the steamship Cam
den recently reported that the Cape
Ann gas buoy was not burning and
the lighthouse tender Azalea was or
dered to investigate.
When the first officer of the tender
opened the hood hundreds of hornets
flew out and he was severely stung.
Fie caught some of the hornets and
presented them to Captain Eaton, su
perintendent of lighthouses, as evi
dence.
The buoy is six miles off shore.
Newlyweds' Callers Stage
Big Rat Killing Bee
Jonesboro, Ark.—You can fetch the
pride of some people by entertaining
with a lifeless party, but persons who
attended a courtesy to a young mar
ried couple here recently were unbeat
able. Aggravated with the routine of
a social, the men folk hoisted stray
clubs and chased rats about the barn
and corn cribs at the home. In an
hour 150 rats were dead.
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Cat and Bird Call Truce
Middletown, N. Y.—A cat and a bird
called a temporary truce here and
amused passers-by who saw the bird
alight on the cat's back for a short
ride across a lawn. The bird ap
peared to take delight in flying back
and forth from its unusual perch.
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SALE
You Will Find
Many Bargains
in good serviceable merchandise at the Sale being
conducted at Crawford's Store.
For ten days big values in Shoes of best quality will
be sold at a low price. The entire line of Shoes will
be closed out. Latest styles in Ladies' Shoes, Strap
Pumps and Oxfords, in black> tan and blonde colors.
One lot of Boys' Shoes at a BIG REDUCTION.
Ladies' Silk Dresses at Half Price
All Summer Dress Material at a Big Reduction.
Best Quality Silk Hose, service weight, and chiffon
Prices from $1.00 to $1.95.
Attractive Daytime Frocks
latest styles and designs.
The Crawford Store
Old Fort, N. C.
Mrs. W. Crawford, Prop. "
New Ways to Earn Money
and the Old Way to
Have It!
Within twenty-five years, one-third of the American
working population has gained employment from in
dustries and business born during that brief period of
time. There are thousands of new ways to earn
money, but only one way to have money.
It's an old, old story which we so frequently repeat
—save money, and if you will heed it, you will not on
ly earn money—but truly have it and enjoy it to the
utmost.
THE BANK OF OLD FORT
OLD FORT, N. C.
You will find Delicious Home Cooked Meals at
The City Cafe
FOR SUNDAY Special
—"~~~~Chicken Dinner
50c
Good Coffee, Ice Tea, Pies, Etc.
Call For What .You Want.
D. A. SILVER, Prop.
Next to Post Office Old Fort, N. C.
The New Felt Hat
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New brim and crown lines—large and small
head sizes
I
Felts trimmed with chiffon velvet
Stylish and becoming new velvet tams
in chiffon velvet for the girl with the long bob.
Something new and different.
Dula Hat Shop
OLD FORT, N. C.
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